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Page 131 - Ride a cock-horse to Banbury Cross, To see a fine lady ride on a white horse, Rings on her fingers, and bells on her toes, She shall have music wherever she goes.
Page 128 - Little Boy Blue, come blow your horn, The sheep's in the meadow, the cow's in the corn.
Page ix - What is to be thought, therefore, of that cruel education which sacrifices the present to an uncertain future, that burdens a child with all sorts of restrictions and begins by making him miserable, in order to prepare him for some far-off happiness which he may never enjoy?
Page ix - Life is the great thing after all; the life of the child at its time and in its measure no less than the life of the adult. Strange would it be, indeed, if intelligent and serious attention to what the child now needs and is capable of in the way of a rich, valuable, and expanded life should somehow conflict with the needs and possibilities of later, adult life. "Let us live with our children...
Page 319 - There is, for example, the vital impulse itself, the general bent to grow. Then there is its habit of sending out straight, rapidly growing shoots with two-branched tendrils at the end. These tendrils revolve slowly through the air, and when one touches an obstacle, as a wire or branch, it hooks itself about it and draws up in the form of a spiral spring, pulling the shoot up after it. A shoot which thus gets a hold grows rapidly and sends out more tendrils; if it fails to get a hold it by and by...
Page 6 - Can the country school curriculum be selected directly from the purposes of boys and girls in real life? If so, to what extent, with what effect, and under what conditions?
Page 173 - The tale was told of old Brouwer, a most heretical disbeliever in ghosts, how he met the Horseman returning from his foray into Sleepy Hollow, and was obliged to get up behind him ; how they galloped over bush and brake, over hill and swamp, until they reached the bridge ; when the Horseman suddenly turned into a skeleton, threw old Brouwer into the brook, and sprang away over the tree-tops with a clap of thunder.
Page x - The essence of the curriculum as used in this experiment is the purposes of boys and girls in real life. As such it is necessarily as broad as life itself and is not limited to any set of prescribed performances to be engaged in by boys and girls in a particular sequence as is the usual interpretation of the school curriculum. In this sense the curriculum is a living thing, child experiencing, no more capable of standardization in the sense of performances nicely prescribed in advance and from above...
Page 50 - Play Projects represent those experiences in which the purpose is to engage in such group activities as games, folk dancing, dramatization, or social parties. Excursion Projects involve purposeful study of problems connected with environments and activities of people. Story Projects include purposes to enjoy the story in its various forms — oral, song, picture, phonograph, or piano. Hand Projects represent purposes to express ideas in concrete form — to make a rabbit trap, to prepare cocoa for...
Page 172 - There were several more that had been, equally great in the field, not one of whom but was persuaded that he had a considerable hand in bringing the war to a happy termination. But all these were nothing to the tales of ghosts and apparitions that succeeded. The...